It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of tho…

John Steinbeck
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It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. ✨ John Steinbeck (2002). East of Eden, p.363, Penguin
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It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. ✨ John Steinbeck (2002). East of Eden, p.363, Penguin

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